American Literature 1880-1940 Critics & Context Quotes – Flashcards
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Lee (1987)
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"European civilisation... is sterile, because the moral sensibility abdicates in favour of the aesthetic."
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Gray (2003)
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"Gatsby's dream is, in effect, The American Dream, and Fitzgerald is ultimately exploring a nation and a national consciousness, as well as a single and singular man."
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Trilling
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"Gatsby, divided between power and dream, comes inevitably to stand for America itself."
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James M Cox (1954)
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Huck as an "outcast"
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Parkinson (1987)
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"The Midwest is a region possessing a moral identity and is invested with stability."
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Berthoff (1981)
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"The modern city... seemed a place... at least at first, of opportunity and renewal, of a richer and freer existence."
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Anderson
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"The new American life... the whirl and roar of modern machines."
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Fitzgerald
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"It was an age of miracles...an age of excess."
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Sheeler
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"Our factories are our substitute for religious expression."
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Calvin Coolidge
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"The chief business of the American people is business."
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Steinbeck
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Questioned whether Americans were "restless people, never happy with who they are?"
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Tanner (1990)
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"The green light offers Gatsby a suitably inaccessible focus for his yearning."
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Le Vot
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TJ Eckleburg's eyes fading but not his spectacles suggests "a withering of spiritual power and a corresponding increase in materialism."
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Fitzgerald (2)
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"A whole race going hedonistic, deciding on pleasure."
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Fitzgerald (3)
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"the Jazz Age now raced along under its own power, served by great filling stations full of money."
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Richard Wright
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"a wild and intense longing.. to belong, to be identified."
